University of Wyoming Receives Historic Software Donation from Schlumberger

August 6, 2009

University of Wyoming officials today announced a $73 million
software donation from Schlumberger, the world's leading oilfield
service company.

Students, faculty and researchers will benefit from access to the
leading exploration and production modeling software used by global oil
and gas companies. Last year, Schlumberger donated $26.6 million in
software to UW, the largest gift of its kind until its most recent
commitment.

"Schlumberger continues to show its dedication to partnering with UW
and Wyoming in the expansion of the university's efforts as a national
leader in energy education and research," UW President Tom Buchanan
says. "Without Schlumberger's gifts, our faculty and students would not
have the important tools to fulfill their educational and research
goals."

The donation of ECLIPSE* Parallel, the industry reference reservoir
simulation software, will be used in the UW College of Engineering and
Applied Science's (CEAS) EnCana Reservoir Simulation Laboratory. The new
lab, which will start construction this month, is the first of three
petroleum engineering laboratories to be funded by EnCana's gift of $2
million, matched by the state. The 2008 software donation from
Schlumberger was directed to the Wyoming Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute
(EORI).

"An important feature of this gift to UW by Schlumberger is its focus
on undergraduate education regarding oil and gas reservoirs," says CEAS
Dean Robert Ettema. "Undergraduate students will experience an
educational environment usually reserved for graduate students, exposing
them to advanced contemporary engineering practice."

In addition to the teaching component, software also will be used
collaboratively across several UW departments including petroleum
engineering, chemical engineering, geology and geophysics and
mathematics.

"The EnCana Reservoir Simulation Laboratory equipped with the
Schlumberger ECLIPSE software enables the faculty to teach fundamentals
in petroleum engineering and other disciplines while using industry
standard equipment and software," says Assistant Professor Vladimir
Alvarado, the faculty member responsible for the laboratory. "The
Reservoir Simulation Laboratory has been conceived as a data room to
simulate workspace for integrated teams in petroleum engineering and
geosciences. This will provide students and researchers with the look
and feel of industry standard settings."

The entire spectrum of computer-aided analysis from static, enabled
by Petrel software, to dynamic modeling will be available. Parallel
simulation will be enabled using black-oil and compositional models of
ECLIPSE on computer clusters with up to 70 simultaneous cores in a
single run.

Schlumberger donated the software to UW as part of an effort to
increase industry-standard geology and geophysics software knowledge for
students. This preparation will broaden the skill sets of university
geoscience and petroleum engineering graduates, making them more
attractive in the job market.

Additionally, Schlumberger recently renewed its original software
gift to the EORI, which will benefit from an additional $32.9 million
in software licenses to support students' understanding of oil and gas
reservoirs.

Photo: UW petroleum engineering students visit Jonah Field to
learn about increasing the gas flow-rate from wells by creating
artificial fractures in the gas bearing rock.